bamaranger
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You may recall I posted that I'd broken a transfer bar on a Ruger Blackhawk. Here is a follow up post on the install and overall story.
I spoke to Ruger South Carolina on Monday, and the parts arrived by US mail Friday. I'd asked for 2 transfer bars so as to have a spare, and that is what they sent, no charge. I sat down with the revolver tonight and installed the new part.
The transfer bars arrived "in the gray"...which is a switch after looking at a blued steel one for 30 years. Not stainless, the new bars will draw a magnet, simply unfinished. There is apparent machining done on the flats to get the parts to spec, in fact the invoice calls them transfer bar (mach.).
After watching a couple of Y-Tube videos, (including the ones posted by Ruger) I had the revolver apart in about 15 minutes. Getting the transfer bar into the gun, and the hammer and trigger to mesh was the most difficult part of reassembly......ain't nothing to it if you know how to do it....but I didn't, and struggled a bit 'till the magic happened. Once I got the relationship of the hammer and trigger figured, the rest of the gun when back together easily enough. I'd say the whole job took me,... totally unfamilar except for the videos,... just a tad over an hour. That would include a scrub and relube of all the parts.
One thing regards the single action really struck me. That old revolver has been down the river, many a mile first in a Bianchi #1, and later in an Aircrew chest holster. For near 30 years, its hung in the Bronco in the dust, waded thru cutover and thicket, been rained on and dunked in a fall, and shows all the cosmetic wear you would expect. On most forays, I'd shoot at least a cylinder full of modest power reloads at some point. I have NEVER had the frame apart. And in this episode, I was amazed at how relatively clean the internals were. No weed seeds, very little crud, a breeze to detail clean and relube before reassembly.
Thinking about it, there is just very little opportunity or locations where crud can get in. And a lot of the carbon and powder residue goes south at the barrel cylinder gap. Despite my broken part, I gained a new respect for the single action.
I spoke to Ruger South Carolina on Monday, and the parts arrived by US mail Friday. I'd asked for 2 transfer bars so as to have a spare, and that is what they sent, no charge. I sat down with the revolver tonight and installed the new part.
The transfer bars arrived "in the gray"...which is a switch after looking at a blued steel one for 30 years. Not stainless, the new bars will draw a magnet, simply unfinished. There is apparent machining done on the flats to get the parts to spec, in fact the invoice calls them transfer bar (mach.).
After watching a couple of Y-Tube videos, (including the ones posted by Ruger) I had the revolver apart in about 15 minutes. Getting the transfer bar into the gun, and the hammer and trigger to mesh was the most difficult part of reassembly......ain't nothing to it if you know how to do it....but I didn't, and struggled a bit 'till the magic happened. Once I got the relationship of the hammer and trigger figured, the rest of the gun when back together easily enough. I'd say the whole job took me,... totally unfamilar except for the videos,... just a tad over an hour. That would include a scrub and relube of all the parts.
One thing regards the single action really struck me. That old revolver has been down the river, many a mile first in a Bianchi #1, and later in an Aircrew chest holster. For near 30 years, its hung in the Bronco in the dust, waded thru cutover and thicket, been rained on and dunked in a fall, and shows all the cosmetic wear you would expect. On most forays, I'd shoot at least a cylinder full of modest power reloads at some point. I have NEVER had the frame apart. And in this episode, I was amazed at how relatively clean the internals were. No weed seeds, very little crud, a breeze to detail clean and relube before reassembly.
Thinking about it, there is just very little opportunity or locations where crud can get in. And a lot of the carbon and powder residue goes south at the barrel cylinder gap. Despite my broken part, I gained a new respect for the single action.